Ayla
Reynolds’
father
arrested for
violation of
bail in South
Portland

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On Sunday at the Victorian Fair at Victorian Mansion, Steve Henry of Winthrop plays the fife while decked out in full infantry regalia as part of the Third Maine, Company
A, re-enactors of a regiment recruited early in the Civil War from several communities of Maine’s Kennebec River Valley. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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The mayor and City Council recognized members of the Portland Fire
Department who saved a co-worker
who suffered an episode of cardiac
arrest while on duty.
Fifteen of the department’s responders and dispatchers who helped resuscitate Lt. Steve Henderson, a 26-year
veteran of the PFD, when he suffered
from cardiac arrest on July 20 while
finishing end of shift paperwork.
Henderson, who is now recovering,
was found without a heartbeat and
slumped over a keyboard by David
Crowley and Gary Anderson, both
firefighter/emergency medical technicians, who called 911 and began performing CPR until other members of
the department arrived.
Crowley, Anderson, Deputy chief
David Jackson, Capt. Michael Nixon,

this type of event ends with a sad outcome, and I am delighted to say that
Steve is home with his family and
friends because we were trained, present and prepared.” said Chief Jerome
LaMoria, in a statement.
The chief said the department has
put a lot of emphasis in cardiac care
and cardiac arrest resuscitation, and
seen its survival rate for patients suffering cardiac arrest triple.
indicates that the department has
placed a great deal of emphasis on
cardiac care and cardiac arrest resuscitation. “The department has made
sure that our crews are trained, prepared and ready to do what needs to
be done to ensure the best possible
outcome,” LaMoria said. “... New protocols, training and equipment have
made a measurable difference in our
response to cardiac arrest victims,
and Steve’s recovery is the latest and

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Monday’s agenda but after
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very gratifying example of this hard
work.”
•••
Aside from recognizing the members of the PFD, the mayor and council recognized two members of the
Portland Police Department: Officer
Andjelko Napijalo and Senior Lead
Officer Daniel Knight. Napijalo was
recognized as the officer of the month
for June and Knight as the officer of
the month for July.

A spaghetti supper on Friday, Sept.
20, at 6 p.m. at the Elks Lodge in Saco
will benefit a team participating in a
Sanford walk dedicated to suicide prevention.
Tickets are $9.95/person, and kids
12 and under are free. The funds are
to benefit Team Ashley “AJ” Johnston for the 5k Walk/Run on Oct. 5
at Gowen Park in Sanford, for the
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP.org), organizers of the
supper said. Tickets can be purchased
ahead of time online at RememberAJ.
com and can be picked up at the door
the day of the supper.

Maine Jewish Film
Festival notes board
changes after meeting
The Maine Jewish Film Festival
announced changes to its board of
directors following an annual board
meeting for the 2013-2014 season.
Dr. Natan Kahn assumes the board
presidency, the festival organizers

announced. Kahn has been on the
screening committee of the Maine
Jewish Film Festival since 2007 and
on the board since 2008. Kahn is an
oculoplastic surgeon with Maine
Eye Center. He is a resident of Portland and president of Congregation
Shaarey Tphiloh.
Festival founder David ConnertyMarin is now vice president. He was
the first executive director of the Maine
Jewish Film Festival, serving in that
role for five years, and has been a board
member since 2008. Connerty-Marin is
responsible for outreach on standards
and assessment at the Maine Department of Education and served as communications director for the office of the
Speaker of the House of the Maine Legislature. He also serves on the board of
the New York-based Morris J. & Betty
Kaplun Foundation.
Amy Goldberg has been named
treasurer and chair of the Finance
Committee. She has served as treasurer of the Maine Jewish Film Festival since 2009. Before joining the
festival, she served on the board of the
Jewish Community Alliance. She has
worked in the pharmaceutical and
medical device industry for the past
20 years with Eli Lilly and Co., Boston
Healthcare, and, currently, the Pinnacle Health Group. Goldberg lives in
Falmouth.
Currently the secretary, Hedy
Cohen has been a board member of

the film festival for over 10 years.
She is an active participant on both
the development and film selection
committees and is a resident of Cape
Elizabeth.
Andy Russem, managing principal/
client services and strategy at the
Garrand Agency, is new to the board
and will be active on the Publicity/
Marketing and Screening Commit-

tees. He is a resident of Portland.
The Maine Jewish Film Festival is a
nonprofit organization “whose mission
is to provide a forum for the presentation of films to enrich, educate and
entertain a diverse community about
the Jewish experience. Portland is the
smallest city in the nation to boast an
independent, professional Jewish film
festival,” a press release noted.

First: Paul Sabin’s stupid op-ed in The New York
Times Saturday shows how intellectually bankrupt and pusillanimous the “newspaper of record”
has become, in step with
the depraved and decadent
empire whose record-keeper
it supposedly pretends to be.
Sabin is flame-keeper for
the theories of the late cornucopian demi-god Julian
Simon, a business school professor whose great idea stokes
the wishful thinking that has
overtaken a class of American
leaders who ought to know
better, and spread through the
public they serve like a fungal
infection of the brain. The core
of Julian Simon’s great idea is
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that material resources don’t
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matter; human ingenuity will
overcome all limits.
Maybe that’s a temporarily comforting thought for
leaders in business, media, and politics, who don’t

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Time for Congress
to step up on Syria
Many Americans have been
contemplating
the
proper
response to the use of chemical
weapons in Syria one week ago.
President Obama announced his
intention to seek the support
of Congress representing the
American people before acting as
Commander in Chief to order a
military response.
A range of responses has cascaded from every stripe of the
political rainbow and served to
underscore how difficult the position of the United Stares is in
the world today. Our nation has
become the superpower that the
entire world expects will come
to its aid and somehow protect it
from evil, an impossible task.
The current situation illustrates how much the world has
changed since the Constitution
was crafted two hundred and
twenty-six years ago. We have
changed from a culture that
feared a standing army and the
power of monarchy to the degree
that it put the control of the military in civilian hands and made
explicit that a declaration of war
must be ordered by the people’s

Robert
Libby
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One Man’s
Island
representatives to an armed military state that provides weapons
and military expertise to most
nations of the world. The complexity of our military extension
reaches into every remote village and mountain valley of the
globe. The intricate machinations
of experts to protect the interests
of the American economy have
twisted our government into
pretzel logic.
We have spent and continue
to spend vast amounts of our
nation’s treasure on military
hardware and the most expensive
standing army the world has ever
seen and have sent all manners
of destructive weapons to repulsive dictatorial regimes hoping
they would use them to stabilize
their regions, make their people

open markets for our products. We
as a nation have dropped millions
of tons of explosives, invented and
distributed millions of land mines,
and deployed predator drones to
threaten those that we perceive
wish us harm.
How many trillions of dollars
have been spent on covert military operations and preparedness
in the name of national security
since the last Congressional Declaration of War in 1941? How
many wounded and injured veterans have served and returned
to this country with altered lives
in the pursuit of our interests
abroad whatever they might have
been? While we ask the world to
join us in punishing Assad, do
we ignore the repressive military
coup in Egypt and continue to provide billions of dollars of military
aid to its rulers? Is Pakistan an
ally in the military adventure in
Afghanistan? How do we justify
the continued support of Israel’s
nuclear arsenal while drawing
a red line against Iran’s pursuit
of nuclear power? How did the
see LIBBY page 5

The proposed spanking was a bad idea from the start
KUNSTLER from page 4

want to face the realities of peak resources and climate change, but it guarantees a harsher economic
outcome since the wishful public will do nothing to
prepare for the very different terms of daily living
that are already shoving them into hardship and
desperation.
Julian Simon, who died in 1998, is best remembered now for a bet he made in 1980 with biologist Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb.
The bet was supposed to determine whether the
converging difficulties of our time should be taken
seriously. The two men picked a menu of commodity metals and bet whether the price would rise or
fall by 1990. Ehrlich bet that scarcity would drive
the price up; Simon bet that they would go down.
Simon won the bet only for temporary circumstantial reasons, namely that the last great discoveries
of cheap, easy-to-get oil ramped into full production
by the mid-1980s and pushed a final orgy of global
industrial development until 2008, when things
really started falling apart. By then, Julian Simon
has been dead for a decade.
Simon’s idea lives on in the wishful thinking
around shale oil and gas, which have led the American public and their leaders to believe that we’re in
an “energy renaissance” that will lead to “energy
independence.” Just the other day, Senator John
McCain made the inexcusably dumb remark that
the U.S. is now a net oil exporter. This is a man who
ran for president five years ago, talking completely
out of his ass.
Now oil is well over $100 a barrel, a price that the
American economy, as currently configured, cannot
endure. That price is crushing the kind of activity
we have depended on lately: the house-building and
lending rackets associated with the creation of suburban sprawl. And $100 oil is especially corrosive to
the problems of capital formation, because without
more racket-driven “growth,” we can neither generate new credit, nor pay the interest on old credit.
We’ve used accounting fraud in banking and gov-

ernment to cover up this failed equation. But it has
only led to greater deformities in markets and a general fiasco in the management of money all around
the world, and it is spinning out of control right now.
If these conditions were to crash the global economy
and the price of everything fell in a deflationary
depression, with oil back under $60 a barrel — then
it would not pay enough to frack the shale rock, or
drill miles under the ocean, or do any of the very
expensive operations of what’s called unconventional oil recovery.
For The New York Times to keep hauling out the
sorry-ass figure of Julian Simon to “prove” a specious and dangerous point surely shows the limits
of one thing: intelligence in the media. Because of
that and other related failures in the transmission
of ideas, this is now a nation that cannot construct
a coherent narrative about what is happening to it.
Now, second: Syria. The world has pretty much
lined up against President Obama’s proposal to
issue a cruise missile spanking to Syria for supposedly gassing its own citizens. Nobody thinks this
is a good idea, some for reasons of tactical advantage and some on the idea’s basic merit, or lack of.
Mr. Obama pulled his punch over a week ago by
standing down and taking the issue to Congress
for approval. I’m convinced he did that because he
would have been impeached for launching an overt
act of war — despite similar actions by his recent
predecessors.
The proposed spanking was a bad idea from the
start. There was no visible threat to the national
interest from Syria’s bad behavior within its own
borders. The gas attack was a terrible act of depravity, but firing missiles into Syria wasn’t going to
bring back the dead. It was only going to cause more
death. There’s no advantage to the U.S. for supporting either side in the Syrian civil war. The spread or
deepening of any kind of disorder in that region will
threaten a critical portion of America’s oil imports.
In the background of this, things are becoming
unstuck in the seriously ill and constipated realm of
international banking. The aforementioned deformi-

Now oil is well over $100 a barrel, a price that
the American economy, as currently configured,
cannot endure.
ties caused by central bank interventions, market
manipulations, Too Big To Fail carry-trade rackets,
and misreporting of financial data have begun to
shred currencies in nations at the margin (India,
Brazil, Indonesia) and that illness may prove contagious. The global economy depends on some basic
faith that major financial institutions are sound,
and that they trade in sound instruments that represent real wealth. That is all being called into question now, and how long will it be before a general
paralysis freezes the entire letters-of-credit system
that underlies global commerce?
The Syria soap opera has also managed to upstage
the imminent mud-wrestling match between congress and the executive branch over the national
debt limit and related matters of government spending. These problems appear for now to be completely
intractable. If the government overcomes the latest
version of this recurring dilemma, it will only be due
to generating even more layers of accounting fraud
to an already well-papered piñata that is just waiting to be smashed. While this goes on, the American
public gets pushed deeper and deeper into a financial abyss, haunted by re-po men, lying bank officers,
verminous lawyers, and chiseling hospital administrators.
All this is a recipe for a political explosion. What
happens if the U.S. Government starts gassing its
own citizens? It happened in 1967. That one only
made people cry. Maybe next time, they’ll use a different kind of gas.
(James Howard Kunstler is the author of several
books, including “The Long Emergency,” “The Geography of Nowhere” and “The Witch of Hebron.” Contact him by emailing jhkunstler@mac.com.)

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Daily Sun columnist Kunstler
like ‘the dad that many never had’
Editor,
Just quickly, being so rush, but had to take the
time just to say: What a pleasantry to see James
Howard Kunstler’s piece in today’s Thursday paper
after having gone missing this past Tuesday. And
not just for “the content”! His voice on these subjects
that are so close to home, here in the U.S., is like that
of the “dad that many never had.” Made my day!
Thank you,
Audrey Spence
Portland

Reader looks forward to seeing
Halkias columns in the Sun
Editor,
Thanks to Telly Halkias for sharing the story “Letters to Kandi,” in the Portland Daily Sun. Literally
one of the best things I have ever read. Look forward

to reading his column every week. All the best.
Matt Taylor
South Portland

‘Letters to Kandi’ column struck
a chord; one reader recalls ‘Enrique’
Editor,
Something otherworldly put the Daily Sun and
the “Letters to Kandi” column by Telly Halkias in
my life for an important reason. THANK YOU for all
the connections, memories, tears and hope that I’ve
taken away from the reading.
His name was Enrique — summer ‘69 in London —
saved my flat from the garbage strike consequences
— love at first sight — spent next 10 years crossing and missing each other at many turns — but,
always ... those beautiful, long letters. Only person
on Earth who could finish my sentences for me, and
always be right, even tho’ English wasn’t his native
language.
Sent him a plane ticket to Boston for my 40th
birthday — he used it — all feelings still there, but
circumstances keep throwing up insurmountable

obstacles. He’s recovering from a heart attack, while
I’m about to undergo extensive cancer surgery. I
put a niche above the closet in my newly renovated
retirement cottage. The moulding is shaped like the
prow of a boat and it faces toward Spain. The trunk
my grandfather used to immigrate from Greece will
live up there, lovingly protecting stacks of Enrique’s
letters. Maybe someday the progeny will read them
and finally understand.
Ann Fraser
Buxton

Reader appreciated Halkias column
Editor,
This is fan mail: that was a fine piece by Telly
Halkias in the Labor Day weekend edition of Portland Daily Sun (“Letters to Kandi”). Great story, and
just wonderfully written. Thank you for it.
Sincerely,
Jon C. Gale, Esq.
Portland

It is not sufficient to point at the president and blame his ineffective leadership
LIBBY from page 4

United States acquire a military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba?
President Obama is correct to seek the support of
the Congress for the contemplated action, further
the United Nations and the United Arab States
should be forced to go on record on this issue. If

strict economic sanctions are being effective in Iran,
why will they not work in Syria? Each representative in Congress should present a clear statement
of what should be done and why. It is not sufficient
representation to point at the president and blame
his ineffective leadership, it demands each representative should speak directly to constituents and
explain each vote. The Constitution makes Congress

the preeminent branch of government, responsible
for the budget and in control of our military. It is
time to act like it.
(One Man’s Island columnist Robert Libby of Chebeague Island is a teacher, writer, organic gardener,
executive director of the Maine Center for Civic Education.)

12 years in jail and six years of supervised release
for possession with intent to distribute oxycodone,
according to U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II.
Snow pled guilty to the charge on May 9, a press
release from Delahanty reported.
According to court records, on Jan. 29, Snow was
stopped by Maine State Police troopers and found to
be in possession of 500 oxycodone pills. Snow admitted the pills were his and that he intended to distribute them, Delahanty reported.
At sentencing, Judge Hornby found Snow to be a
career offender which subjected him to enhanced
sentencing penalties.
This case was investigated by the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration, the Maine State Police
and the Scarborough Police Department.

Daily Sun Staff Reports
Two 15-year-old female South Portland High
School students were issued summonses for cruelty
to animals in the wake of a video posted on Twitter
that appeared to show two teenage females, reportedly students from South Portland, putting a cat in
a microwave, the South Portland Police Department
reported.
On Friday, the department received reports that a
video posted on Twitter appeared to show the teens
putting a cat in a microwave on or about Sept. 5, Lt.
Frank Clark reported.
On Monday morning, as part of the investigation resulting from those reports, the students were
issued summonses, Clark reported. The girls’ names
and identifying information are being withheld due
to their age, he noted.
The matter remains under investigation, and the
case will be referred to the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office for review and consideration
of the appropriate formal juvenile charges, Clark
reported.
The cat is reportedly not displaying any ill effects
at this time, Clark reported. Its owners, however,
have agreed to turn the cat over to South Portland’s
Animal Control Officer, who will be seeking a veterinary evaluation and appropriate disposition for the
cat, he reported.
This incident has prompted a widespread response
in social media circles, strongly condemning these
actions, and the police department wanted the
public to know that the matter is being addressed
and referred to the Juvenile Justice System, Clark
reported.
“We want to say thank you to those who reported
this matter to the department, and would ask for
the public’s patience in letting the system do its job,”
he said.

Police locate man sought as
part of Portland burglary probe
The Portland Police Department has located a
man they sought as a person of interest related to
a series of residential burglaries in the city, after
the Portland man allegedly was
caught committing a break-in in
Buxton.
David Michael Ferrar, 23, of
Portland, was taken into custody
Saturday morning by members
of the Portland Police Department, the Buxton Police Department, Maine State Police and the
Maine Warden Service in Buxton,
according to a press release. He
was charged with burglary and
theft of a firearm. Ferrar was
Ferrar
wanted on a probation violation
and is still a person of interest in
a rash of residential burglaries in the areas of Morrill’s Corner and Munjoy Hill in Portland.
Police received information that Ferrar was in
the Buxton area and officers found him on Dunnell
Road while allegedly committing another burglary,
according to a press release. Ferrar is being held at
the York County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail.
Several weeks ago, the Portland Police Department cautioned residents to lock their homes and
vehicles after a series of burglaries were reported
on Munjoy Hill and the Morrill’s Corner neighborhoods. Police said the burglars had either entered
homes through unlocked windows or, in some cases,
cut through screens.
Items reported stolen during the burglaries
included laptop computers, computer tablets, cash,
jewelry, medication and firearms.
Some of the burglaries were concentrated around

Westbrook Public Safety, businesses
team up on Sept. 21 Kids Safety Day

This screenshot shows part of a video clip of a South Portland teen
placing a cat in a microwave. (COURTESY IMAGE)

Ayla Reynolds’ father arrested for
violation of bail in South Portland
Justin DiPietro, 26, of Waterville, father of missing Waterville toddler Ayla Reynolds, was arrested
by the South Portland Police Department Friday at
about 11 a.m. for violation of bail, due to possession
of alcohol, police said.
He was being held on $350 cash bail, staff at the
Cumberland County Jail reported.
DiPietro’s violation was he was in possession
of alcohol, according to the South Portland Police
Department.
DiPietro was driving a vehicle that was pulled over
for having an expired inspection
sticker, police said. One of his
bail conditions is he must submit
to random searches and testing,
and when the officer searched
the vehicle, the officer found
alcohol in the vehicle, according to the South Portland Police
Department.
In July, Portland police officers
arrested DiPietro in the area of
88 Spring St. after a police lieutenant passing by observed him
DiPietro
assault a woman, according to
Portland police. The victim, a 25-year-old Portland
woman, was identified by police at the time as an
ex-girlfriend of Dipietro. She was not injured in the
assault.
Dipietro was charged with domestic violence
assault and released on bail from that incident. DiPietro pleaded not guilty in court at the time.
The disappearance of Ayla Reynolds has captivated the nation. She was reported missing from the
house she shared with her father in Waterville on
Dec. 17, 2011.

Mass. man sentenced for possession
with intent to distribute oxycodone
Joshua Snow, 30, of Lynn, Mass., was sentenced
in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to

Westbrook Public Safety, Hannaford and Saco &
Biddeford Savings plan to host a free Kids Safety
Day for the community from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept 21, the Westbrook Police Department
reported.
Westbrook Public Safety, in partnership with the
Westbrook Hannaford and Saco & Biddeford Savings will be hosting the day with a variety of fun
and educational family activities, police announced
in a press releaes. This event will include vehicle
extrication demonstrations; K-9 demonstrations;
the processing of a mock crime scene from 11 a.m.
to noon in the Saco & Biddeford Savings branch;
and car fires with live firefighting demonstrations.
A smokehouse, fire trucks, ambulances and police
cruisers will be on site for viewing and exploration
for the duration of the event.
Ernie’s Cycle Shop and the Bicycle Coalition of
Maine will be sponsoring a bicycle rodeo and providing bike safety checks throughout the event. And,
the Michael T. Goulet Traumatic Brain Injury and
Epilepsy Foundation will be giving away free bike
helmets to the first 100 kids, along with a fitting and
helmet safety check. Also, the Maine Freemasons
will be offering free child identification kits through
their MECHIP Program.
Kids Safety Day will be held rain or shine in the
parking lot between Hannaford and Saco & Biddeford Savings, at 2 Hannaford Drive in Westbrook.
Visitors also can expect free hotdogs, popcorn,
water and soda. Nickles, the Saco & Biddeford Savings mascot, will meet and greet from 11 a.m. to 1
p.m., according to the announcement.
This event is being provided free of charge for all
that attend, according to the announcement. For
information, visit http://www.westbrookmaine.com.

University of Maine at Augusta
to host Fourth Amendment forum
Commemorating Constitution Week this year,
University of Maine at Augusta’s Office of Civic
Engagement will hold a public forum, “The 4th
Amendment & Your Right to Privacy: Endangered
Species?” on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in the Richard Randall Student Center Fireside Lounge from 11:45
a.m. to 12:45 p.m., UMA reported.
Among the topics covered will be the status of the
Fourth Amendment in this country and in Maine,
a historical perspective on the abrogation of rights,
and how advances in technology have affected privacy rights, according to the announcement.
The forum features three guest speakers: Shenna
Bellows, executive director of the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maine; Robert Bernheim, a human rights scholar and UMA Professor of
History; and Joseph Szakas, UMA Provost and Professor of Computer Information Systems.
Following the brief speaker presentations, Dr.
Szakaz will facilitate a discussion among the speakers and the audience.
The forum is free and open to the public . For more
information contact Valerie Marsh at 621-3158.

The PORTLAND Daily Sun, Tuesday, Septemebr 10, 2013— Page 7

Acclaimed French comic Gad Elmaleh at Port City:
Comedy ‘my language and way of communicating’
By Timothy Gillis

SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Nomme a la fois le “Ben Stiller” et le “Jerry Seinfeld” Francais, Gad Elmaleh est certainement le plus
important et aime comedien Francais.
Tu comprends?
Even if you haven’t had French since high school,
you can still probably understand that Gad Elmaleh
is being compared to the great American comics,
Ben Stiller and Jerry Seinfeld.
Organizers of the comedy show, which will be
Wednesday, Sept. 11, at Port City Music Hall, are
betting that humor is universal and that there are
enough French-speaking people in the greater Portland area to fill the venue.
Born in Casablanca, Morocco, Elmaleh speaks
Moroccan Arabic, French, English, and Hebrew. In
2006, he was awarded the “Chevalier des Arts et
des Lettres” by France’s minister of culture and was
voted “The Funniest Person in France.”
Shortly thereafter, he followed up with his
fifth one-man show, “Papa est en Haut” (“Dad is
Upstairs”) which premiered at the prestigious Just
for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, as well as
to sold-out audiences in Miami, Los Angeles, and the
Beacon Theater in New York City.
In December of 2007, Gad made history when he
sold out the prestigious L’Olympia (Paris’ Carnegie
Hall) for seven consecutive weeks, something no one
has done before. Immediately after his stint at the
Olympia, Gad performed for another seven sold out
weeks at Le Palais des Sports, a 3,800-seat venue.
Early tickets sales were slow, and forced the State
Theatre to move the show to Port City Music Hall,
but organizers still expect Elmaleh to have the room
in stitches.
I caught up with the comedian a few weeks ago,
as he returned from a trip with his partner, Charlotte Casiraghi, a member of Monaco’s “House
of Grimaldi” royal family. They are engaged and
expecting their first child at the end of 2013.
Gad: I’ve been on vacation for one month, so
I restart with you, Tim, I don’t know if it’s a good
thing. I don’t know if I will remember you in a good
way.
Tim: You’re coming to Portland, Maine. Will show
be in French or English or both?
Gad: In French. This is a tour that I’m doing in
the United States for the Francophones. I like to put
some English in it. It’s an opportunity to work on
some English material, because it will be my next
step.
Tim: What do you expect from a Maine audience?
Have you been here before?
Gad: It’s my first time in Maine. I don’t expect anything, so I can only be surprised. Lobster — I can
only give you the clichés.
Tim: You did your first routine all in English in
July in Montreal, and got a great reception, a standing ovation. Tell me about that.
Gad: My good friend, Eddie Izzard (a British comedian), invited me. I didn’t have a standing ovation in
French! I was really surprised. It was a special night
for me. The challenge is to go to Maine, now.
Tim: You have filmed a comedy routine with Jerry
Seinfeld called “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”
What was that like?
Gad: We’re really very close friends now. Comedians are linked, even if they don’t know each other.
But when they get to work together — Jerry came
to Paris — and then when I performed in French in
New York City, he did this great surprise: he came
and did the opening. It was a great surprise, this
icon of comedy. We became good friends and he proposed to me that do “The Bee Movie.”
He called me one day and said ‘I heard you where
in New York. I’m doing this show called Comedians
in Cars Getting Coffee.’ I said ‘what do I have to do?’
He said ‘Nothing. I’ll pick you up and we’ll get coffee

and film it.’ We had a
great time.
Tim: How’s Jerry’s
French?
Gad:
Very
bad.
He knows nothing
about France. But we
laughed. All the Americans say, ‘I took two
years of French in high
school, but I forgot.’
We do English, and we
don’t forget.
Tim: I understand
you and Charlotte are
expecting. When is the
baby due?
Gad: Really? I better
check. You’re
just
informing me of someElmaleh
thing.
Tim: Wikipedia says that, so it must be true.
Gad: Oh boy. I must get ready for that.
Tim: What jokes do you dare to tell the royal
family?
Gad: I think that a comedian doesn’t have to adapt
his jokes or change who he is — and humor is really
my language and way of communicating. I am who I
am, whatever happens.
Tim: Who is your favorite French comedian?
Gad: That’s a hard question because they all my
friends — so Jamel Debbouze is one of my favorites, one of the best in France (he pauses and then
includes himself in the count). I think he should be
maybe number two or three, something like that.
Tim: You were born in Morocco. Do you return
there often?
Gad: Oh, yes. I like to visit Marrakesh. I have a
place there, and like to go with the family. I like to
bring American people over there, to show them
where I was born. Morocco is a great country. Once
they (Americans) understand it’s not the Middle
East or next to China, they begin to understand, and
fall in love with the country.
Tim: Much like Seinfeld, your humor is observational, and difficult to retell, even in the same language. What do you focus on in trying to convey your

jokes in another language?
Gad: This is the real thing that I think about
almost every day because being able to make jokes
in another language is not only a matter of translation, and has nothing to do with accent. You can kill
people with laughing with a French or Moroccan or
Chinese accent, but you have to be understandable
each second. (The audience) never has to say in their
mind ‘oh, what did he say’ because humor is about
timing, it’s about pacing, and you don’t want to lose
them with that.
What I’m working on very hard now is this rhythm
and sometimes not the translation but to get the
real syntax formula in English.
When I translated my ten-minute bit into English,
I had four pages in French and I got two pages in
English. That was great because it was contracted.
I have to learn all that to make people laugh in
English, and not only translate. It’s more adaptation.
Tim: What are your favorites comedy topics?
Gad: I like to choose universal things. I won’t do an
impression of a famous French — I don’t know what
— politician. If I’m talking about a dog in French
and it’s funny, it’s going to be funny in English or
any language.
Looking Ahead:
Gad Elmaleh’s future projects include the lead
role in the Costa Gavras feature, “Le Capital” opposite Gabriel Byrne, the much-anticipated French
comedy “Les Seigneurs,” the romantic comedy “Le
Bonheur n’arrive jamais seul” opposite Sophie Marceau as well as a lead role in Michel Gondry’s next
feature “Mood Indigo,” which will be released in
2013.

Gad Elmaleh, French comedian
at Port City Music Hall
Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 8 p.m.
General admission tickets $40
Student tickets ($15) are available in advance at the
Cumberland County Civic Center Box Office with
student ID, or the night of the show at the Port City
Box Office with proper ID.

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Docent Muffie Fernald chats with a visitor inside the Victorian Mansion on Sunday during the Victorian Fair, a first-time event at the Portland landmark. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Victorian Fair brings Civil War era to life
By David Carkhuff
THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Civil War re-enactors from the Third Maine Regiment turned back the clock outside of one of the best
preserved pre-Civil War-era mansions in the nation
Sunday.

More than 500 people passed through the gates
last Sunday for the Victorian Fair at Victorian Mansion in Portland, according to caretakers of the Danforth Street landmark.
The Victorian Fair mingled views of the historic
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as a summer home for Ruggles Sylvester Morse, a
luxury hotel proprietor, with vignettes of the era on
the lawn outside.
But adding to the novelty was an outdoor encampment of Civil War re-enactors, complete with period
popcorn and snacks.
Steve Henry of Winthrop played the fife while
decked out in full infantry regalia.
“I’m pretty much just a private in the ranks, just
an infantry private,” Henry said.
The fife music gave a glimpse of life for the Third
Maine, Company A, a regiment recruited early in
the Civil War from several communities of Maine’s
Kennebec River Valley.
Music was “a very large part of their existence
because they did so little fighting and so much
marching and drilling and work,” Henry explained.
As a result, “they had a lot of free time on their
hands, and music filled a lot of that; and it also was
a huge morale booster.
People in the ranks would play banjo, cornets,
guitars, fiddles, Irish pennywhistles, “in fact each
regiment pretty much if they could afford it, would
have a brass band that would put on daily concerts
of popular music,” he added.
At the Victorian Mansion Sunday, Henry’s fifeplaying infantryman was joined by Larry Williams,
who played the role of a gentleman in the 1860s, and
Robert Pierce, who portrayed a private in the Union
Army.
“We try to portray what life was like for a Civil
War soldier with the Third Maine — we’re also
known as the Bath City Grays — back in the 1860s,”
Pierce said.
Williams said, “The Bath City Grays have been
around quite awhile, and when the war started they
went in with the Third Maine.”
see next page

LEFT: Carolyn Lawson talks about Victorian era dresses as part of the Victorian Fair on Sunday. ABOVE: Solomon Spiegel and Sam Smith
(back left) of the Portland Blacksmith Guild demonstrate how to forge metalworks. BELOW LEFT: Re-enactors gather on the lawn outside
of Victorian Mansion on Sunday. BELOW RIGHT: The Bath City Grays mustered into federal service on June 4, 1861, in Augusta, as Company
“A” of the Third Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry. Here, re-enactors run drills as the Company. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

‘We try to portray what life was like for a Civil War soldier’
from preceding page

The Company A, Third Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry, according to
its website (http://www.thirdmaine.
org) “is a nonprofit educational and
living history organization dedicated

to preserving the memory of Maine’s
role in the American Civil War.”
The Bath City Grays mustered into
federal service on June 4, 1861, in
Augusta, as Company “A” of the Third
Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry.
The majority of the men, according

to the re-enactment
group, were tradesmen,
shipwrights, shopkeepers and artisans, while
the rest of the regiment
was largely composed of
Kennebec lumbermen.
“When the Seventeenth finally mustered
out of service on June
10, 1865, in Portland,
Maine, several veterans
of the original Third
Maine had served four
years and one week-a
total of 1,468 days of this
county’s most horrible
and devastating war to
date,” the group’s website noted.
On Sunday, the portrayals included
“civilian ladies,” who “research and illuminate the roles of women in the early
1860s,” including “Maine women who
served in the Maine Camp and Hospital Association and the United States
Sanitary Commission.”
Those included Carolyn Lawson, who
helped visiting women try on elaborate
Victorian era dresses.
Portland Blacksmith Guild member
Sam Smith and Solomon Spiegel dem-

onstrated how to forge metalworks on
an anvil.
The Victorian Mansion will host a
special performance by Joanna Olsen:
“the story of the woman for whom King
Edward VII would abdicate the throne,”
noon on Wednesday and Thursday,
Sept. 18 and 19, at the Cumberland
Club. Tickets are $75 per person, proceeds from this event benefit Victoria
Mansion.
For more information on the fundraiser or for visits to the mansion, visit
http://victoriamansion.org.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Your
smile is your best accessory, and you’ll
wear it from day into night. When your mood
dips, the flexing of a few facial muscles will
improve things immensely.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Other
people’s belief systems may not match yours,
but that doesn’t make them wrong. The only
steadfast rule is that there are no steadfast
rules. Being flexible will serve you well.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Cats and
terriers can smell the rats they can’t see, and
you have something in common with these
perceptive beasts today. State your suspicion, and it will be confirmed.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 10). What’s
better than doing work you enjoy with people
you love? You’ll find out in the span of four
weeks. October brings a change in the friendship circle. November sees you entrusted
with a responsibility, as well as with the key to
someone’s heart. Make your move in January when your idea will be universally liked.
Cancer and Leo people adore you. Your lucky
numbers are: 30, 14, 2, 35 and 47.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Roll with the
punches. Don’t let yourself get attached to an
interaction going any certain way. This isn’t a
movie, and your happy ending does not hinge
on a single interaction playing out in one particular way.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You want to
be seen in a certain light, and you’re being
a bit careful about how you present yourself.
Just know that you will have to reveal a bit
about yourself if you want others to let down
their guard and do the same.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll be
making a pitch of some kind. Don’t forget to
ask for what you want. Once you state your
intention, people will either support you or opt
out. Either way, your time will not be wasted.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Class is not
money, and money is not class. Ideally, you’ll
learn and grow and have plenty of both. For
now, determine which you have more of and
then work on the lacking area for a while.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Beware of the
tendency to spend unnecessarily now. Take a
second look at the choices you’ve made. It’s
a good time to cut something out for the sake
of living within your means.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The question
will arise: Are you being too hard on yourself?
How far should you push yourself for optimal
strength, health and happiness? Your tendency is to go too far, and today you’ll benefit
from pulling back.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Marcel Proust
said that the only paradise is paradise lost.
He underestimated your ability to know a
good thing when it’s happening. You will revel
in today’s slice of heaven.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). In order
to fully accept yourself, you must first consciously realize what it is you’re rejecting.
Certain notions you have about yourself are
so ingrained that you won’t notice them until
someone points them out to you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Use
good judgment in deciding when to try to
influence others and when to stay out of it.
People indulging their prejudices don’t want
to be confused with facts.

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Today is Tuesday, Sept. 10, the 253rd day of
2013. There are 112 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On September 10, 1813, an American naval
force commanded by Oliver H. Perry defeated the
British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War
of 1812. (Afterward, Perry sent out the message,
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”)
On this date:
In 1608, John Smith was elected president of
the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.
In 1846, Elias Howe received a patent for his
sewing machine.
In 1912, the jungle character Tarzan made his
debut as “Tarzan of the Apes” by Edgar Rice Burroughs was first published in The All-Story magazine.
In 1919, New York City welcomed home Gen.
John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who’d
served in the U.S. 1st Division during World War I.
In 1939, Canada declared war on Germany.
In 1945, Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to
death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis
(he was executed by firing squad in October
1945).
In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the
University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith,
a black student.
In 1963, twenty black students entered Alabama public schools following a standoff between
federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace.
In 1979, four Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for a 1954 attack on the U.S. House of
Representatives and a 1950 attempt on the life of
President Harry S. Truman were freed from prison
after being granted clemency by President Jimmy
Carter.
In 1983, John Vorster (FAWS’-tur), prime minister of white-ruled South Africa from 1966 to
1978, died in Cape Town at age 67.
In 1987, Pope John Paul II arrived in Miami,
where he was welcomed by President and Mrs.
Reagan as he began a 10-day tour of the United
States.
In 1993, “The X-Files” premiered on Fox Television.
Ten years ago: Swedish Foreign Minister Anna
Lindh, 46, was stabbed in a Stockholm department store; she died the next day. (Mijailo Mijailovic was later convicted of murdering Lindh and
was sentenced to life in prison.) The first video
image of Osama bin Laden in nearly two years
was broadcast on Al-Jazeera T.
Five years ago: The world’s largest particle
collider passed its first major tests by firing two
beams of protons in opposite directions around
a 17-mile (27-kilometer) ring under the FrancoSwiss border. Frank Mundus, the legendary shark
fisherman said to have inspired the character of
Quint in “Jaws,” died in Honolulu at age 82.
One year ago: An airstrike killed al-Qaida’s No. 2
leader in Yemen along with six others traveling with
him in a breakthrough for U.S.-backed efforts to
cripple the terror network’s operations in the impoverished Arab nation. Chicago teachers walked off
the job in what would become a seven-day strike,
idling nearly 400,000 students in one of the nation’s
third-largest school district. Andy Murray became
the first British man since 1936 to capture a Grand
Slam title, beating Novak Djokovic, to win the U.S.
Open in five grueling sets.

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Dear Annie: I am a 34-year-old wife and mother of four.
My husband is 44 and drinks on a daily basis. I don’t mind a
few cans of beer when he gets home. However, he drinks at
least a six-pack, usually more, every day after work. I’m tired
of arguing with him about his drinking. He always responds,
“At least I drink at home and not at the bar.”
My husband also refuses to get an annual physical exam.
He never sees a doctor or a dentist, even if he is sick. I’m really
worried about his health. I want him to live long enough for
our children to reach adulthood.
I have asked my husband whether he will let me take him
for a physical. If the doctor says he is healthy, my heart will
be at peace. I think he is being selfish, only thinking of himself. He talks so much of pride. But he doesn’t consider what
would happen to his family if anything were to happen to
him. My youngest child is only 4. How do I get him to cut
back on his drinking and see a doctor? -- Worried Wife
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You can try talking to him about these possibilities. Unfortunately, he may not be willing to admit any of this or change
his behavior, in which case, the best you can do is protect
yourself. Make sure he has a valid will and his affairs are in
order. And contact Al-Anon (al-anon.alateen.org) for support.
Dear Annie: Two years ago, my husband and I bought a

condo so we could spend our winters in a warm climate. We
have family members who are now inviting themselves to
“visit,” which means they are vacationing while we do all the
work. We enjoy these relatives, but for a shorter time period.
And having their own accommodations would be ideal.
How would you suggest we handle this? We don’t want
to hurt anyone’s feelings, but we are not very excited about
these yearly winter visitors, and I feel used. -- N. in Arizona
Dear N.: Unless you tell these people they cannot stay with
you, they will continue to impose. Simply say, “It would be
wonderful to see you. Unfortunately, we aren’t up to hosting
guests. Here are the names of local hotels. Let us know when
you get settled.” If anyone ends up at your condo, don’t be
reluctant to ask them to pitch in with the groceries, cooking
and cleaning. You did not, after all, invite them. Perhaps they
will decide it isn’t quite so appealing as a “vacation” spot. At
the very least, you won’t be doing all of the work.
Dear Annie: I read the response from “Fran,” who took
exception to your response to “Perplexed,” saying that kids
shouldn’t have to call their parents every day, even if it only
takes five minutes.
I am a 61-year-old male. My grandmother used to live a
block away. When I was a child, my mother would go see her
every evening even if it was only for five minutes. One evening, I asked my mother why she went every single evening
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tomorrow I may never get to talk to her again.” I understood
exactly what she meant. P.S.: Grandma passed away five
years later. -- Loving Dad in Pennsylvania

Saturday, Aug. 31
12 a.m., Angel Velez, 47, of address unknown, was
arrested for operating without a license and failure
to stop for a police officer on I-95 by Officer Thomas
Reagan.
2 a.m., Nicholas Dimott, 18, of Portland, was
arrested for aggravated forgery on Park Street by
Officer Christopher Kelley.
3 a.m., Robert Dow, 33, of Gorham, was arrested
for operating under the influence and illegal attachment of plates on St. John Street by Officer Thomas
Kwok.
10 a.m., Kimberly MacKenzie, 55, of address
unknown, was arrested for criminal trespass on
Congress Street by Officer Matthew Morrison.
2 p.m., Holly Bartlett, 33, of Portland, was arrested
for operating after suspension on State Street by
Officer Joseph Jaynes.
5 p.m., Leanna Rhode, 24, of address unknown,
was arrested for engaging in prostitution on Congress Street by Officer Brent Abbott.
5 p.m., Richard Rogers, 44, of address unknown,
was arrested for indecent conduct on Congress
Street by Officer Charles Frazier.
10 p.m., Jennifer Velez, 27, of Portland, was
arrested for engaging in prostitution on Brackett
Street by Officer Brent Abbott.

Sunday, Sept. 1
2 a.m., Brent Gross, 24, of Westbrook, was arrested
for disorderly conduct on Dana Street by Officer
Laurence Smith, Jr.
12 p.m., Anthony DiPhillipo, 29, of Portland, was
arrested for assault on Pearl Street by Officer Stacey
Brooker.
1 p.m., Brittany Ann Manzo, 26, of Portland, was
arrested on a warrant for theft by unauthorized
taking or transfer on Lancaster Street by Officer
Andjelko Napijalo.
2 p.m., William Merrow, 27, of Portland, was
arrested on a warrant for theft by unauthorized
taking or transfer on Chestnut Street by Officer
Matthew Morrsion.
2 p.m., Geraldo Alberto Gonzalez, 49, of Somersworth, N.H., was arrested for operating after suspension and as a fugitive from justice on Leland

Street by Officer John Cuniff.
4 p.m., Matthew Carver, 30, of Portland, was
arrested for theft by unauthorized taking or transfer on Euclid Avenue by Officer Thomas Reagan.
6 p.m., Sean David McDaniel, 42, of Portland, was
arrested for violation of bail conditions and violation
of conditional release on Franklin Street by Officer
Michael Bennis.
11 p.m., Raymond Bliss, 18, of Bath, was arrested
for operating under the influence and operating
after suspension on Franklin Street by Officer Kali
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11 p.m., Samuel Gama Peter Ogak, 28, of Portland, was arrested for failure to register a motor
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donor center on September 11, 2013 will receive a special
‘Roll up your Sleeve and Remember’ blood drive t-shirt as a
thank you from the Portland Fire Department. To schedule
an appointment or for more information visit www.redcrossblood.org or call 1 800 RED CROSS. Walk in donors are
welcome. ”

Tuesday, Sept. 10
Regional employer forums

9 a.m. to noon. “The Maine Business Leadership Network
(MEBLN), in partnership with the Maine State Chamber of
Commerce, is excited to announce two upcoming regional
employer forums focused on the benefits to businesses in
hiring people with disabilities, part of Maine’s untapped
workforce. The Biddeford forum will take place at Volk
Packaging on Tuesday, Sept. 10. The Auburn forum will
take place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at Procter & Gamble.
The Maine Business Leadership Network is a state affiliate of the United States Business Leadership Network
(USBLN). ... For more information on the Maine BLN,
please visit our web site: http://mainebln.org.” Time for
both: 9 a.m. to noon.

Eastern Cemetery tours

1:30 p.m. Regularly scheduled tours at Eastern Cemetery
with Spirits Alive, through Oct. 13. Wednesdays 1:30 p.m.;
Saturdays 10:30 a.m.; Sundays 1:30 p.m. “This tour will
take you through the 6-acre site while a guide explains the
history of the grounds, those buried within, the types of
stones and an overview of how the site fits into the history
of Portland.” http://www.spiritsalive.org/tours/index.htm

Gad Elmaleh, French comic

8 p.m. Gad Elmaleh at Port City Music Hall. State Theatre,
Portland, presents: Touted as the ‘Ben Stiller of France’ and
the ‘Jerry Seinfeld of French Comedy’ Gad Elmaleh is arguably the biggest and most loved comedic star in France.
Born in Casablanca, Morocco, he speaks Moroccan Arabic,
French, English, and Hebrew. In 2006, he was awarded the
‘Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres’ by France’s Minister of
Culture and was voted ‘The Funniest Person in France.’
Shortly thereafter, he followed up with his fifth one man
show ‘Papa est en Haut’ which premiered at the prestigious
Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal as well as to
sold out audiences in Miami, Los Angeles and The Beacon
Theater in New York City. In December of 2007, Gad made
history when he sold out the prestigious L’Olympia (Paris’
Carnegie Hall) in Paris for seven consecutive weeks, a task
never before achieved. Immediately after his stint at the
Olympia, Gad performed for another seven sold out weeks
at Le Palais des Sports — a 3,800-seat venue.” Doors 7
p.m./show 8 p.m. http://www.statetheatreportland.com/
event/308203-gad-elmaleh-portland/

National Suicide Prevention Day awards

2 p.m. The Blaine House, State Street, Augusta (opening
remarks at 2:30, awards at 3:10 p.m.) for National Suicide
Prevention Day. “Governor Paul R. LePage and representatives of law enforcement and human resources will be
recognized for their suicide prevention effort and will be
presented with the Caring About Lives Award. The First
Lady will accept the award on behalf of the Governor, who
is unable to attend. Speakers scheduled to participate
include: First Lady Ann LePage; Department of Education
Commissioner Stephen Bowen, Maine Center for Disease
Control and Prevention Director Dr. Sheila Pinette, and
National Alliance on Mental Illness Executive Director Jenna
Mehnert. 2013 Caring About Lives Honorees: Governor Paul
R. LePage supported the recent passage and implementation of LD 609 in public schools and issued an Executive
Order for the implementation of State of Maine Government
suicide prevention protocols. Westbrook Police K9 Officer Roxie, her partner, Officer Phil Robinson. Officer Gus
Rodriguez and Sgt. Steven Hanlon are credited with saving
a woman’s life earlier this year. Roxie tracked the woman
and located her some distance away from where she had
initially been reported missing. Bangor Police Officer Derek
Laflin pulled a young man to safety after it was reported
he was threatening to jump from a bridge. Detective Marc
Bowering of Farmington talked a man down from his intent
to commit. Maine Bureau of Human Resources Management Analyst Howard Jones coordinated and oversaw the
workgroup assembled to create the State of Maine’s Suicide Awareness and Prevention Policy requiring each State
agency to implement the policy via employee training delivered in partnership with the National Association on Mental
Illness Maine.”

Starting Your Own Business

2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Portland SCORE offers a workshop on
Starting Your Own Business: Covering all the Basics,
at SCORE Offices, 100 Middle St., Portland. Cost is $35
with online registration. For more details or to register visit
website: www.scoremaine.com or call 772-1147 weekday
mornings.

Greendrinks on the East End Beach

5 p.m. to 7 p.m. East End Beach. “Friends of the Eastern Promenade is partnering with Portland Greendrinks to
engage with Portland’s young professional crowd. Bring
your own vessel $5 ($10 entry fee without a cup) and enjoy
a sampling of local beer and non-alcoholic beverages while
enjoying the spectacular scenery of the East End Beach.
This 21 plus event requires photo identification with proof of
age. We encourage utilizing alternative transportation to the
beach. Narrow Gauge Railroad will provide complementary
rides from its downtown station (next to Portland Yacht Services on Commercial Street), and bike racks will be available for those who ride along the Eastern Promenade trail.”
Rain date Sept. 12.

Olympic Biathlon team members at PPL

5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “Portland Public Library hosts two
members of the Olympic Biathlon team for an evening with
the athletes Tuesday, Sept. 10 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
in the Rines Auditorium. U.S. Olympic Team Biathlon members Annelies Cook and Lowell Bailey will be at Portland
Public Library on September 10th to talk about Biathlon
and competing at World Cup and Olympic events. Biathlon
is a winter sport which combines cross country skiing and
rifle shooting. This event is presented by Portland Public
Library and Maine Winter Sports Center Olympic Development Team.”

Thursday, Sept. 12
Today at 2:30 p.m. at the Blaine House, State Street, Augusta,
National Suicide Prevention Day award recipients will include
Westbrook Police officers and K9 Roxie (pictured). These honorees
were involved in responding to a May 11 incident of a a suicidal
person who had run into the woods off of Andover Road, officials
reported. The distraught 25-year-old woman had made one suicide attempt and fled from people who were trying to assist her,
police said. Officer Phil Robinson and his K9 Roxie were quickly
able to locate the woman and successfully interrupt a second
suicide attempt. The woman was transported to Maine Medical
Center by Westbrook Rescue. (COURTESY PHOTO)
ica” at Schoolhouse Arts Center on Sept. 11 to 12. “Auditions for ‘Zombie America’ will be held at Schoolhouse Arts
Center on Wednesday, Sept. 11 and Thursday, Sept. 12,
from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Those auditioning will be asked
to do cold readings from the script. No preparation necessary. Characters can vary in age. All ages over 20 may
audition. No acting experience necessary. We are looking
for the right group of cast members to audition and join in
this opportunity to be the first cast ever to do this play.”
Schoolhouse Arts Center at Sebago Lake, Standish. http://
www.schoolhousearts.org

Wednesday, Sept. 11
September 11th memorial in Portland

8:46 a.m. “The Portland Fire department will honor those
who died during the attacks on September 11, 2001 with a
wreath laying ceremony and a day-long blood drive. At the
September 11th memorial at Fort Allen Park on the Eastern Prom, participants will observe a moment of silence at
8:46 a.m., the time when American Airlines Flight 11 hit the
North tower of the World Trade Center in New York. Honor
guard from the Portland Fire and Portland Police and will be
present as a wreath is laid at the memorial. At 11 a.m. the
American Red Cross will open its donor center at 524 Forest
Avenue and hold the “Roll Up your Sleeve and Remember”
blood drive. Sponsored by the Portland Fire Department,
the blood drive is an easy way for the community to give
back. The American Red Cross states that the need for
blood is great. The Northern New England Region — Maine,
New Hampshire and Vermont, needs to collect on average
700 units to maintain sufficient blood supply. The blood on
the shelves today will help save lives tomorrow. Residents
of the surrounding areas are encouraged to roll up their
sleeves for a good cause. “We welcome the Portland community give blood on September 11th. It is our privilege to
partner with the Portland Fire Department as we look for
a way to honor and remember those who lost their lives
that day,” said Michael Kempesty, CEO of the Red Cross
Northern New England Region. The donor center, located
at 524 Forest Avenue in Portland, is open from 11 a.m. until
6 p.m. Participants who donate at the American Red Cross

Wayside Food Programs food drive

9 a.m. to 7 p.m. “To rebuild food inventory that has dwindled over the summer, Wayside Food Programs will hold a
three-day food drive on Sept. 12-14 that will be hosted by
Whole Foods Market, located at 2 Somerset St. in Portland.
Running from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday,
the food drive will focus on collecting food for in-need families served by Wayside and its partner agencies. In addition,
on Sept. 14 from 9:30 to 11 a.m Whole Foods will hold a
‘Kids Day of Service,’ during which children and parents
will assemble food bags for Wayside to distribute to Portland Community Policing. To find out more about ‘Kids Day
of Service’ and to sign up, visit http://ptlkidsdayofservice.
eventbrite.com/. Space is limited.”

Working Harbor Guided Tour

5 p.m. to 7 p.m. “Portland’s Working Harbor Guided Tour
by Portland Senior Planner Bill Needleman. Join us and
Portland Senior Planner Bill Needleman for a fascinating
update to last year’s history and planning tour of the port of
Portland. From West Commercial Street to East Commercial Street, learn about the latest and future developments,
the working piers, and the evolving marine economies.
Suggested $5 donation for Portland Trails members, $7 for
non-members.” http://trails.org/programs

Mad Horse Theatre sneak peek event

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Join Mad Horse Theatre Company at their
performance space for refreshments and a sneak peek at the
upcoming 2013-2014 season. Thursday, Sept. 12 from 6 p.m.
to 8 p.m. at the Hutchins School, 24 Mosher Street, South
Portland. Mad Horse Company and Board members will be
on hand to offer exciting details about our upcoming season,
special events, volunteering opportunities, subscriptions and
ways you can participate and support Mad Horse Theatre. It
was a great first season at Mad Horse in our new home and
this year we have a powerful lineup of award-winning plays,
including three Maine premieres and special events. ‘The
School for Lies’ by David Ives, Maine Premiere, Sept. 26 to
Oct. 13; ‘Vigils by Noah Haidle,’ Maine Premiere, Jan. 16 to
Feb. 2, 2014; ‘Orphans’ by Lyle Kessler, March 13 to 30, 2014;
‘Grey Gardens’ book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel,
lyrics by Michael Korie, Maine Premiere, May 29 to June 22,
2014.” For more information call 730-2389, visit the Facebook
page or www.madhorse.com.

Organizer of alien-abduction conference vows to return
By David Carkhuff
THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Audrey Starborn of Oxford, founder of Experiencers Speak in Portland, said a Sept. 7-8 conference on alien abduction at the Clarion
Hotel will be back in 2014. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

This year’s Experiencers Speak
in Portland summoned stories of
trauma and accounts of encounters with alien beings that forever
altered the lives of the speakers.
Audrey Starborn of Oxford,
founder of Experiencers Speak in
Portland, said the Sept. 7-8 conference at the Clarion Hotel was
“all about education” and vowed
to return in 2014.
But now that the second conference is over, outreach and support will continue, Starborn said.
Support groups for people who
believe they were abducted by
aliens will continue meeting, and
Starborn will begin contemplating next fall’s conference in conjunction with a similar-themed
New Hampshire gathering.
“We plan on having it every
year, probably this week of every
year,” Starborn said of the Experiencers series. “Usually, Labor
Day weekend is the Exeter UFO

“It’s all about having a place
that can help the person who
is having experiences with
being abducted, it’s a very
lonely, scary thing, and if they
don’t have anyone to talk to it
really can have post-traumatic
stress as an issue.” — Audrey
Starborn of Oxford
Fest (they canceled it this year),
but we like to do them back to
back so people coming in from
other states can do a week and
have two UFO events to go to,”
Starborn said.
According to press reports,
repairs to a town hall building
forced cancellation of this year’s
UFO Festival in Exeter, but organizers are planning next year’s
event with a target date of Aug.
30, 2014 (more details are avail-

able at http://www.exeterufofestival.com).
Starborn
Support,
which
started in 2006, now features
10 chapters on the East Coast,
and Starborn said the organization offers therapies and support
group meetings in between its
annual conferences.
“It’s all about having a place
that can help the person who is
having experiences with being
abducted, it’s a very lonely, scary
thing, and if they don’t have
anyone to talk to it really can
have post-traumatic stress as an
issue,” Starborn said.
An outreach program teaches
families and friends “how to be
supportive” and alleviate the
sense of isolation, she said.
“Since 2006 since I started,
we’ve had thousands of calls
from all over the country and the
world, so a lot of people are starting to have recollections about
what’s going on, maybe starting
to have dreams or getting some
kind of messages,” she said.

‘Get the facts first,’ urges ‘Fire in the Sky’ author
By David Carkhuff
THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The second Experiencers conference in Portland
last weekend brought together several high-profile
speakers whose stories of alien abduction or aliencentered research touched on cases both in New
England and elsewhere in the country.
• Travis Walton
Walton and Steve Pierce, an eyewitness to Walton’s reported Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1975 alien abduction in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in
Arizona, recounted their experiences, an incident
which inspired the 1993 film, “Fire in the Sky.”
Walton was one of seven men thinning trees on a
U.S. Forest Service contract, and the crew was driving along a ridgeline after a day of work when they
saw a startling sight through the trees. A glowing,
humming spacecraft hovered on the mountain, they
said.
According to his written account, Walton said he
“was suddenly seized with the urgency to see the
craft at close range. I was afraid it would fly away
and I would miss the chance of a lifetime to satisfy
my curiosity about it. I hurriedly got out of the truck
and started toward the hovering ship. ... I ducked
into a crouch when a tremendously bright, bluegreen ray shot from the bottom of the craft. I saw
and heard nothing. All I felt was the numbing force
of a blow that felt like a high-voltage electrocution.”
What has been deemed “the best documented
account of alien abduction yet recorded,” Walton’s
story (formerly titled “The Walton Experience”) was
told in detail at the Portland conference, including
his five-day disappearance, his return and the ensuing controversy and investigation.
Asked why he attended the Experiencers Speak
conference, Walton said, “It’s to advance the cause
and make people aware that there is a core reality
here.”
Like other speakers, Walton insisted that facts of
the case have been clouded by disinformation.
“Probably the worst stuff was just disinformation,
things that were said early on to try to explain it
away, but much of the evidence that disproved those
notions was available at the time,” Walton said in an
interview. “It has taken all this time for it to filter
out and gradually dispel those kinds of rumors. But
it surprised me that just as recently as a few years
ago someone went online and found somebody from

my hometown and asked them what they thought,
and they said, ‘Oh, that was disproved a long time,
that was all shown to be a drug hallucination.’ No,
it wasn’t, it was almost immediately disproved by
medical tests and blood and urine samples, with
the county medical examiner’s drug screen, which
showed there was no trace of any drug in my body.
And also that was a question on several of my lie
detector tests.”
Walton underscored a key theme of the movie,
which was the consistency of accounts and near
unanimity of lie-detector tests.
“I’ve taken and passed five different lie-detector
tests from three different examiners,” Walton said,
“and just after the crew passed theirs, their six tests
caused the president of the American Polygraph
Association to say that the odds were over a million
to one of there being any mistake with that many
people passing tests on a single issue.”
Walton urged members of the public to do their
own investigation. “Get the facts first,” he said. “In
the first few pages of my book, I quote Emerson:
‘Condemnation, without investigation, is the height
of ignorance.’”
And while “we don’t have absolute proof,” Walton
likened the eyewitness testimony regarding his
abduction to a case for murder in a judicial setting,
noting how well accepted a case would be if based on
six other eyewitnesses.
Asked the most common question he fields, Walton
said, “Probably the silliest is, ‘what was that like?’
OK, where do I begin? Another common question
is, ‘Has that ever happened again?’ I’ve always said
from the beginning, people will compliment me and
say, ‘It’s great that you have the courage to come
out and talk about this.’ It wasn’t by my choice, I
was basically forced to. After I was returned ... well,
before I was returned it was already worldwide
news. ... In order to counter all the misinformation, I
found out I was better off to go ahead and do it” and
speak out about the experience.
Asked the question he dreads the most at public
forums, Walton said, “Did this really happen?” rises
to the top of the list.
Asked about the movie, “Fire in the Sky,” Walton
said, despite its fictionalization of much of the
abduction sequence (the intensity of his experience
was captured, even if the events differed from book
to film, he said), the film still “really pointed people
in the direction of looking at the facts.”

Walton said he is looking for a movie remake that
is more accurate in the retelling, noting “popular
demand” for a new Hollywood treatment of his story.
• Stanton Friedman
On his website (http://www.stantonfriedman.
com), Friedman notes that he was “employed for 14
years as a nuclear physicist by such companies as
GE, GM, Westinghouse, TRW Systems, Aerojet General Nucleonics, and McDonnell Douglas.”
Only by chance — and a desire to save a little
money — did Friedman encounter a book about
flying saucers that turned his attention to the topic
for the remainder of his life.
“In 1958, I was a young nuclear physicist working for General Electric aircraft nuclear propulsion
department, it was a big program, that year we
spent $100 million and employed 3,500 people of
whom 1,100 were engineers and scientists,” Friedman recalled in an interview. “And I was ordering
books from Marlboro Books of New York, my wife
and I used to order discounted books, and I needed
one more book so I wouldn’t have to pay shipping
because I’m a cheapskate, and there was one, a hardcover book, a report on unidentified flying objects,”
by an Air Force captain.
Friedman said he read the book and pondered the
possible applications of nuclear power for UFOs as
part of the GE program.
Friedman would become a fixture in UFO analysis, and gained notoriety as the original civilian
investigator of the Roswell Incident “way back in
1978” (he co-authored “Crash at Corona: The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident”).
Lecturing since 1967, with more than 700 lectures,
Friedman said, Maine is “no different than anyplace
else” when it comes to encounters with unidentified
flying objects.
Friedman said audience members at conferences
who admit to seeing flying saucers also say they did
not report the incidents. “That’s the problem,” he
said. The informal polling of audiences sometimes
yields surprising results.
“If there are hands left up, I will ask, ‘How many of
you are still in the military at the time,’ and if there
are still some hands, I’ll ask, ‘ Do you want to tell us
about it?’ One guy in front of 1,300 people in Texas
said, ‘I can’t. They told me not to say anything.’ That
was a great line.”
see ALIENS page 16

Page 16 — The PORTLAND Daily Sun, Tuesday, Septemebr 10, 2013

‘There was a lot of physical evidence that this was real’
ALIENS from page 15

Another member of the military, someone who
flew over the Pacific and claimed he encountered a
flying saucer, enjoyed credibility with the audience
before which Friedman was spakeing. This military
witness said pictures were “taken away” so he lacked
the evidence other than his own account.
In his presentation, Friedman posed the question:
“Airlines don’t select their travel routes by throwing
darts at a dart board. Why expect that aliens would
act and travel at random? Once one knows about
nuclear fusion, nearby planetary systems would
be within reach. We didn’t find out about fusion
until 1938. It only took 14 years to explode our first
Fusion weapon. What else would one expect from a
primitive society, like ours, whose major activity is
tribal warfare?”
Friedman lives in New Brunswick, Canada, but
maintains a post office box in Houlton. He and Kathleen Marden co-authored the book, “Captured! The
Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience.”

• Kathleen Marden
Now a resident of Clermont, Fla., Marden is the
niece of two of New Hampshire’s most famous figures
in alien-abduction literature,
Betty and Barney Hill.
“I was 13 years old when
they had their close encounter
and their subsequent abduction, and I have for the past
23 years been working full
time as a UFO and abduction
researcher,” Marden said in an
interview.
Marden
On Sept. 19, 1961, Betty and
Barney Hill were driving down Route 3 in northern
New Hampshire after vacationing in Niagara Falls,
N.Y., and Montreal, Canada. The couple stopped
south of Twin Mountain and then again in Franconia Notch, both times marveling at an alien craft.
At one point, Barney Hill disembarked from their
car to approach the craft, according to a narrative
at Marden’s website, http://www.kathleen-marden.
com/the-betty-and-barney-hill-ufo-experience.php.
“As Barney rapidly accelerated down the highway in an attempt to escape from the craft, it
shifted directly overhead,” Marden recounts on
her website. “Suddenly, rhythmic ‘buzzing’ tones
seemed to bounce off the trunk of their vehicle
and they sensed a penetrating vibration. They
drove on without speaking until 35 miles down
the road, once again they heard a second series of
buzzing sounds. Vague memories of encountering
a roadblock, of seeing a huge fiery red-orange orb
resting upon the ground, and feeling a desire for
human contact preoccupied their thoughts. They
looked for an open restaurant to no avail, so they
drove on through Concord, picked up Route 4 and
made a beeline to Portsmouth, expecting to arrive
at approximately 3 a.m. The Hills were surprised
to notice that, as they crossed into Portsmouth,
dawn was already streaking the sky.”
Marden, who spoke at last year’s conference as
well, said part of her message is that her aunt and
uncle bring a level of personal credibility to the
realm of alien abduction.
“I want people to know that Betty was a social
worker for the state of New Hampshire, that Barney
had been appointed by the governor of the state of
New Hampshire to sit on the state advisory commit-

In the 1950s, Stanton Friedman was a young nuclear physicist
working for General Electric when he began exploring UFOs.
(DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

tee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, that both
were active in politics in the state of New Hampshire,” Marden said. “Working for voters rights, campaigning for Lyndon Johnson, they were politically
active, members of the NAACP, doing good things
for the state, and their abduction was the last thing
that they ever wanted to be made public.”
After a violation of confidentiality brought the
story to light, Marden said the couple’s memory of
the event constituted part of an impressive quantity
of evidence.
“I want people to know that part of the story,”
she said. “There was a lot of physical evidence that
this was real and there was also conscious, continuous recall that they had had a close encounter, that
my uncle had observed what he described as nonhuman figures looking back at him. ...”
People ask questions about the couple’s credibility
and their recollection, but questions that make her
cringe, Marden said, include trite queries.
“A lot of times, it’s just the same old, ‘Why don’t
they land on the White House lawn?’ ... I guess it’s
the speculation,” Marden said.

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